moderns in English

noun
1
a person who advocates or practices a departure from traditional styles or values.
Not so with those moderns whose primary scientific values are oriented to the predictable future, and who often relegate the past to, well, simply history.

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1. Antiochus’s personality was as puzzling to many ancients as it is to moderns.

2. Being afterwards, by compulsion, ordained priest, he was made canon and Cellerer (some moderns say provost) of the church of Chartres

3. ‘His Confessedly eclectic work was a temperate defence of the moderns in the debate between the ancients and the moderns.’ ‘My list, however, was Confessedly incomplete.’ ‘The law did not provide for the apportionment of the tax, and, if it was a direct tax, the law was Confessedly …

4. The loudest demands for legal abortion come from “liberated” moderns who have unlimited access to contraception methods to prevent pregnancy in the first place.

5. ‘The Moderns were frequently critical of Progress, not because they favoured old verities and Consuetudes, but because Progress attempted to pass itself off as Nature, or as History itself.’

6. The moderns only have discovered that it is legal to do all this and more for an eternal crown than they did for a Corruptible! People's Bible Notes for 1 Corinthians 9:25

7. ‘They were nevertheless moderns in natural philosophy who accepted post-Galilean science, and propounded an Atomistic theory of matter.’ ‘The dissolution of the feudal estates by the Revolution produced a purely Atomistic society, characterized by the assertion of individual property right.’

8. Lewis is the one who first called someone who thinks that moderns, with all our knowledge and progress, are superior to all who have come before us—“chronological snobs.” In saying so, he was implying that we fail to see the limitations and Blindnesses of our age

9. Lewis is the one who first called someone who thinks that moderns, with all our knowledge and progress, are superior to all who have come before us—“chronological snobs.” In saying so, he was implying that we fail to see the limitations and Blindnesses of our age